Peñon woman

Peñon woman or Peñon Woman III is the name for the human remains, specifically a skull, of a Paleo-Indian woman found by an ancient lake bed in Pueblo Peñón de los Baños in Mexico City in 1959.^[1]

Discovery

Peñon Woman III was found on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco.^[2]

The skeleton's age has been estimated by radiocarbon dating by Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University.^[3] Her ¹⁴C date is 10,755±55 years^[2] (12,705 cal years) BP.

She is one of the oldest human remains found in the Americas.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Gonzalez theorizes that Peñon woman is related to the historic Pericú people of Baja California, who also shared similar physical traits.^[7]

Notes

^ Connor, Steve (3 December 2002). "Does skull prove that the first Americans came from Europe?". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
^ ^a ^b Grattan and Torrence 91
^ "The New World may be far older than it originally seemed." The Economist. 14 July 2005. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^ Legon, Jeordan. "Scientist: Oldest American skull found." CNN 4 Dec 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^ Steve Connor (3 December 2002). "Does skull prove that the first Americans came from Europe?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26.
^ "George Erikson: Who Were The Earliest Americans?". historynewsnetwork.org.
^ Rincon, Paul. "Tribe challenges American origins." BBC News. 7 Sept 2004. Retrieved 15 April 2012.